KCNA calls for checking revival of Japanese militarism
KCNA
Pyongyang, April 25 (KCNA) -- 182 Japanese officials including 74 dietmen visited the "Yasukuni Shrine" on April 22.
After the visit former director general of the Japan Defence Agency Tsutomu Kawara said that the "Yasukuni Shrine" is in the hearts of the people and he wanted to continue visiting the shrine to convey their feelings.
This is a challenge to the people of different countries in Asia who want peace and stability as it is a revelation of the reckless and belligerent remarks of the Japanese reactionaries to lay a ideological and moral foundation of militarism and rush headlong into a war of aggression again, refusing to draw a lesson from what Japan committed in the last century.
It is a well-known fact that the issue of visiting the "Yasukuni Shrine", symbolic of militarism, is a very sensitive political issue as it stirs anti-Japanese sentiment among the Asian people.
Politicians' visit to the shrine where the top-class war criminals who ignited wars of aggression in the past are entombed cannot but take plenty of flak as it means an act of reviving militarism.
Nevertheless, this time heavyweights of right-wing conservatives, ministers of the government and politicians of Japan visited the shrine. This clearly indicates what a dangerous phase the Japanese reactionaries' ambition for overseas aggression has reached.
Recently the director general of the Japan Defense Agency asserted at the security commission of the house of representatives that it is worth examining the need for the "self-defense forces" to have the capability to attack bases in other countries, a full revelation of Japan's intention to launch reinvasion.
What is serious is that Japan is seized with its ambition for overseas expansion at a time when the United States is not hesitating to commit undisguised encroachment upon the sovereignty of weak and small countries under the pretext of "anti-terrorism war", its strategy for world supremacy. Needless to say, the DPRK is the first target of Japan's overseas aggression.
The Korean people who had been subject to immeasurable misfortune and sufferings by the Japanese imperialists in the past are watching the moves for reviving Japanese militarism with a high degree of revolutionary vigilance and are fully ready to decisively repel this attack.
Japan is well advised to cool its head heated with militarism, pondering over the grave consequences to be entailed by its ambition for reckless overseas expansion
